Part A) brand new. Part B) It shows that Douglass's new awareness of how owners maintain control over slaves allows him to better understand how to improve his situation.
The answer to Part A would be Ignorant, as the author goes on to state that his youthful understanding had struggled in vain. If someone is ignorant of something, yet they do not take the time to actually go research or learn about that thing, then they would be struggling in vain because they are selfish and not taking time to research what it is that the other person is saying that they do not understand.
For the answer to Part B, I would say that (Frederick) Douglass' new awareness of how owners maintain control over slaves allows him to better understand how to improve his situation. I say this because he seems to have an awakening/epiphany in the very last line: "I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty".
By protesting in a nonviolent way. He likens it to a thousand men not paying taxes, the most that would happen is them landing in jail, and blood shed is completly uncessary.
It depends if you mean the proverbial parable from the Bible it would be know but if you mean like a story to teach a lesson then yes but most likely yes :) XD
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